All that said, read this relevant post from Roger, particularly the indications on table size:
http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/general/2005-December/025952.html -Dan Please excuse typos; composed on a handheld device. -----Original Message----- From: Jack Ort <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 15:37:07 To: Programming forum<[email protected]> Reply-To: Programming forum <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Mapped Files and Sparse Arrays? Thanks! That was what I was hoping to hear! On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Jack Ort <[email protected]> wrote: > > The J for C section on s: mentions that individual symbol resources > cannot > > be freed up. Is there a known limit to how many symbols I could have at > one > > time? In the clinical usage I was thinking of, if I start encoding all > > possible medication names, and clinical adverse event terms, dosage > > instructions, units of measure, etc., the symbol count could get into the > > hundreds of thousands easily. Would that be too much? > > You have to have enough memory to store them all. > > Hundreds of thousands sounds like that might need a few megabytes > of memory, depending on how long they were. I expect that your > computer should have more than enough memory for this. > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
